New Taser Can Shoot and Shock Three People at a Time; Can Triple Deaths be Far Behind?

Scottsdale-based Taser International recently demonstrated a new product for police that can shock three people at a time. Now, we agree that Taser has benefited law enforcement and even some crime suspects who might have otherwise ended up shot or injured in a scuffle with cops...
By Ray SternJuly 27, 2009
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Scottsdale-based Taser International recently demonstrated a new product for police that can shock three people at a time.

Now, we agree that Taser has benefited law enforcement and even some crime suspects who might have otherwise ended up shot or injured in a scuffle with cops.

But other crime suspects seem to coincidentally die soon after being shot with a Taser.

Will the new X3 produce double or triple deaths? Time will tell.

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Ray Stern is the former news editor of Phoenix New Times. He worked as a newspaper reporter in Arizona for more than two decades. He’s won numerous awards for his reporting, including the Arizona Press Club’s Don Bolles Award for Investigative Journalism.

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